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Endocrinology, Vol 125, 2532-2539, Copyright © 1989 by Endocrine Society

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Glucocorticoids regulate ovine hypophysial portal levels of corticotropin-releasing factor and arginine vasopressin in a stress- specific manner

BJ Canny, JW Funder and IJ Clarke
Medical Research Centre, Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

Hypophysial portal circulation levels of immunoreactive (ir) CRF, immunoreactive arginine vasopressin (ir-AVP), and systemic ir-ACTH and cortisol were determined in dexamethasone-infused (20 micrograms/h) ewes, both under basal conditions and in response to audiovisual and hypoglycemic stress. Glucocorticoid infusion lowered mean basal levels of ir-CRF (P less than 0.05), ir-ACTH (P less than 0.05), and cortisol (P less than 0.05), but not of ir-AVP. Audiovisual stress led to coordinate release of ir-AVP and ir-CRF, and although the hypothalamic response to this stress was not altered in dexamethasone (DEX)-infused sheep, the pituitary-adrenal response was blocked, suggesting that glucocorticoids act on the pituitary rather than on higher centers to inhibit this response. In contrast, hypoglycemia led to preferential release of ir-AVP over ir-CRF, and DEX infusion delayed and inhibited both hypothalamic and pituitary responses. Ketamine injection also led to preferential release of ir-AVP, but neither the hypothalamic nor pituitary-adrenal responses were affected by DEX infusion. These results suggest that different stressors evoke different patterns of hypothalamic secretagogue release, and that glucocorticoids act in a site-specific fashion to regulate the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress.


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